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Part one background -- Part two the top 50 -- Part three honourable mention -- Part four the best of their times -- Part five facts and figures -- Part six the worst of their times.;Filled with compelling biographical narrative, innovative analysis, historical allusion, hockey folklore, humour, heartbreak, and tragedy, Bench Bossesbrings about a new type of hockey history book. By introducing a creative new method for evaluating coaching success, professional historian and hockey columnist Matthew DiBiase settles many a debate. His hard-hitting prose and cogent analysis covers key aspects of coaching and definitively identifies the greatest offensive and defensive coaches, expounds on the best penalty-killing or power-play coaches and delves into statistics to determine the nastiest squads on the ice. His unique assessment method determines his selection of the top fifty head coaches of all time. DiBiase's in-depth hockey research delivers a powerful, gripping and informative look at the game's best of the best. This seminal book tells the story behind the story of coaching success. It removes subjectivity and bias and provides a comprehensive overview of each coach's major career achievements and the contributions each has made to the game. With first-person research and interviews of many of the game's best-known coaches and their players, readers will get the most accurate and complete perspective of the sport and its coaching elite.
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